First some notes... Jason called in tonight and I transcribed the call for him – I guess it’s a little paraphrased, but I hope to have the audio clip below so you can listen to the actual conversation…
He also said that if you need to contact him on the trail, call Tom Bunk (Crew) on his cell: 262-470-5230.
we got started a little bit after 7:30, 7:40 we started… we had Wanda, Brian, Mike, and Janet come out from the Superior Lobe chapter, and then Jeff Allen actually ran with me for the first 10 miles or so. Then he’s going to come out tomorrow, hopefully, and do a little bit more.
Then Tom (Bunk, crew) met me at a lot of road crossings, and I kept eating and drinking all day, by the end definitely tired of eating and drinking, but we had a good time, the trails were in great shape, which we weren’t sure [would be the case], great day, 55 degrees, sunny, little breeze, perfect!
Fair amount of trail,
Gandy Dancer Trail is the rail to trails was almost 15 miles of that, which is nice because you can move a little bit faster. Little sore tonight, little tired, expected for sure, nothing seriously wrong though. So I think tomorrows not going to make it easy, but it’s definitely not something that’s going to make it impossible either. So come tomorrow, just going to get up early and ah… go hit the trail.
We found a nice hotel, took the ice bath tonight – legs feel a little bit better because of it, we’ll see. And then tomorrow morning the reporter from
Luck (WI) is going to come meet us at the hotel when we go off to get a picture and a little interview. So it’s like a lot of good support.
Tim asks: Are you getting enough to eat? Oh, I’ve been eating all day – peanut butter and honey sandwiches, that was the trick. And then some Ensure and then a Gatorade or Ultra-fuel mix. Actually Tom thought I was getting enough calories - that was one of our concerns, you know… how much do I need to get in. But by the end of the day I was kind of tired getting stuff in because every half hour I would take salt tabs and amino tabs and the other half hour I’d take a sandwich, or a goo or something else. So that could be one of the big struggles.
Tim says: So you could actually gain weight on this thing then? (laughter) Now that would be crazy! I guess that’s probably better than losing weight, but I did bring a scale, so I’m just kind of going to watch it…
So I look forward to another day tomorrow. The weather looks like it’s going to be very good for us…
Listen to the Audio MP3 here...
Ed note: You can just click to play the audio, or if you are using Internet Explorer you can save the clip to your computer first by doing a Right-Click on the link and "Save Target As..." If you are using a Mac like Jeff, then I have absolutely no clue how you would go about saving the clip to your computer.
